Jennifer Jordan

Two-time Emmy award winning journalist Jennifer Jordan joined WJW-TV FOX 8 News in January of 2012 as the noon Anchor and reporter for the evening newscasts.

Prior to joining FOX 8, Jennifer worked at WPIX-TV/CW11 as a freelance general assignment reporter.

She also was a fill-in anchor at the station.

In just a few months there, Jennifer reported on some of the biggest stories in the New York metropolitan area. Continuous breaking news coverage included the mid-air plane/tourist chopper collision over the Hudson River that made national headlines.

Jennifer was also the lead reporter on the deadly shooting of a Jersey City police officer and the attempted car bombing in Times Square.

Jennifer joined PIX News from WNYW/Fox 5 and WWOR-TV/My 9. While working for New York city’s only duopoly, Jennifer worked as a general assignment reporter and fill-in anchor.

Jennifer traveled to New Orleans for the unveiling of the USS New York, naval ship built with steel from the World Trade Center. In an exclusive report, Jennifer also exposed security flaws at some of New York City’s most prominent tourist attractions, including the Empire State building.

Jennifer was also lead reporter on the NYPD police shooting of an unarmed man killed by cops on what would have been his wedding day.
Before Fox & My 9, Jennifer was a Westchester correspondent and general assignment reporter for WCBS-TV also in New York. As part of the award winning team, Jennifer was nominated for two Emmy awards for the mass transit strike. Previously, Jennifer anchored the 10 pm newscasts at News 12 Westchester.

While there, she earned two Emmy Awards, one for On-Camera achievement.
The second for a multi-part, hard-hitting investigation titled, “Predator Next Door.” Earlier, Jordan anchored the weekend newscasts at WFIE-TV in Evansville, Indiana. Prior to that, she was a general assignment reporter and fill-in anchor for WBKO-TV in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Jennifer’s career began as a field producer at WSOC-TV in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Jennifer is a graduate of Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, North Carolina where she received B.S. in Broadcast Journalism.

She is also a member of the National Association of Black Journalists and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. She was inducted into Peekskill High School’s alumni Hall of Fame in 2003.

Jennifer has also received numerous community awards for her dedication to covering stories in her neighborhood and volunteering for a number of local charities.

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ASHLAND COUNTY, OH – It is that time of year when children are getting their wish lists to Santa. But when a 9-year-old boy in Ashland County was given the option of receiving a Christmas gift or help the homeless, he chose to embrace the holiday spirit of giving. Mikah Frye was with his grandmother in Ashland last week when he noticed people wandering the streets and in the cold. Terry Brant said, “He said ‘grandma it’s so cold outside, […]

STARK COUNTY, Ohio – There was no crime or 911 emergency, this was a house call the Stark County Sheriff’s Department was more than happy to make. A reunion in Massillon between Deputy Mike Greene and homeowner Erin Wise happened just days after she received possibly the worst news in her life: her 4-year-old son Tegan’s cancer might be returning. He was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer just shy of his second birthday and had been in remission […]

CLEVELAND– Meet the mastermind behind a medical game-changer that could ultimately eradicate breast cancer, not only here in the U.S., but the world. Inside a quiet lab in Cleveland Clinic’s Department of Immunology, Vincent Tuohy, Ph.D. has been hard at work since 2002, researching and creating a breast cancer vaccine. It will soon be in phase one of clinical trials to determine proper dosage and safety. “It targets a protein that’s found in most or vast majority of what are […]

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CLEVELAND, OH – She is a wife, a mother, a grandmother and a fighter. Judy Slater of Pennsylvania says, “My grandson was getting fussy so I was going to get out of bed and pick him up and put him in bed with me and I went to get out of bed and I just fell to the floor.” It was Memorial Day Weekend, 2015 when a stroke paralyzed Slater’s entire left side. Slater says,”I couldn’t walk, and then I […]

FAIRVIEW PARK, Ohio – License-plate reading cameras may be mounted at an intersection near you, to catch criminals. Or maybe to watch law-abiding citizens’ every move? “As long as it keeps us safe, I don’t see any harm in it.” “They got enough cameras. So I think more, would be excessive.” There is currently a proposal to mount such cameras in 18 northeast Ohio suburbs. One of them would be in Fairview Park, where the plan is to mount four […]

NORTH ROYALTON, Ohio – Firefighters in North Royalton have ruled out foul play, but have yet to determine the exact cause of the fire that has now displaced dozens of families and a pastor from their church home. Father Andrew Harmon of St. Matthew Orthodox Church said, “It’s sad, it’s a mess, but God will help us. We’ll be okay.” It was just before 9 Saturday morning. Father Andrew Harmon was alone inside St. Matthew Orthodox Church on Albion Road […]

GEAUGA COUNTY, OH – It is being called one of the largest indoor marijuana grow operations discovered in Northeast Ohio. Just one day after the seizure of hundreds of marijuana plants, we are getting an inside look at the multi-million dollar operation. 1,200 full-grown marijuana plants, several high-powered rifles, handguns and cold hard cash were all seized from inside the warehouse, located on 37-acres of land on a very rural section of Ledge Road in Thompson Township. Assistant Special Agent […]

TWINSBURG, Ohio – A sister and her older brother are hitting the campaign trail hard in these final hours; not for one another, but against each other. Mike Turle and Kathy Turle-Waldron are both battling for the same seat inside Twinsburg City Hall…Council At-Large. But is there bad blood or is it simply a healthy family feud? Turle-Waldron says, “It’s a, it’s a healthy, um, you know run for the seat.” Mike said, “Well, I announced a year and a […]

There are polling location changes for Tuesday’s general election due to power outages from the storms that ripped through Northeast Ohio Sunday night. Here are the changes in Portage County: Voters from Aurora City 2-A, 2-B, 4-A and 4-B originally scheduled to vote at Christ Community Chapel will vote at Harmon Middle School in the cafeteria located at 130 Aurora Hudson Road. Voters from Aurora City 5-A and 6-B originally scheduled to vote at The Walker Building will vote at […]

MENTOR- From creating puzzles, to Peanuts cartoons to his obsession with cars, Liam Waldron of Mentor is a very intelligent 8-year old with a lot of spunk. But just four years ago, his health would take a turn for the worse. His mom, Wendy Waldron said, “We went to go see family in New Jersey, came back and he had been complaining a little bit about his leg hurting.” “I felt like I had growing pains and for thousands of […]

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